Synapse BLOG: Synapse Announcements Blog - Invitations for Applications http://www.mcasynapse.org/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.mcasynapse.org/early-career-women-scientists-from-the-developing-world http://www.mcasynapse.org/early-career-women-scientists-from-the-developing-world Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World invites nominations for 2014 Elsevier Foundation Awards. The annual awards program recognizes talented early career women scientists from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean with a cash prize of $5,000 and a year's access to ScienceDirect, a database of scientific journal articles. Deadline is Sept. 15. 
http://owsdw.ictp.it/activities/the-elsevier-foundation-awards-for-early-career-women-scientists-in-the-developing-world

]]> Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.mcasynapse.org/2013-roadmaps-to-health http://www.mcasynapse.org/2013-roadmaps-to-health Robert Wood Johnson Foundation invites applications for 2013 Roadmaps to Health Prize. With the goal of raising awareness and inspiring locally driven change across the country, up to six communities will receive a $25,000 cash prize and have their success stories shared broadly. Deadline is May 23. http://pweb1.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=21422

]]> Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.mcasynapse.org/innovator-awards-for-lupus-research http://www.mcasynapse.org/innovator-awards-for-lupus-research Lupus Research Institute seeks applications for 2013 Distinguished Innovator Awards. Grants of up to $250,000 per year, for a term of up to four years, will be awarded for novel, hypothesis- or discovery-driven proposals in human and/or animal model-based lupus research. Deadline is May 16. http://www.lupusresearchinstitute.org/lupus-research/grant-application/2013-distinguished-innovator-awards

]]> Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.mcasynapse.org/howard-hughes-professors-competition http://www.mcasynapse.org/howard-hughes-professors-competition Howard Hughes Medical Institute invites applications to 2014 HHMI Professors competition. Up to 15 scientist-educators will be awarded $1 million over five years to create activities that integrate their research with student learning in ways that enhance undergraduate students' understanding of science. Deadline is July 16.
https://grantscompetitions.hhmi.org/EasyGrants_v4_HHMI_r2/Implementation/PDF/HHMIProfessorsProgramInfo.pdf

]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.mcasynapse.org/program-seeks-to-improve-primary-health-care http://www.mcasynapse.org/program-seeks-to-improve-primary-health-care Commonwealth Fund is accepting letters of inquiry for its Patient-Centered Coordinated Care Program. The program aims to improve the quality of primary health care in the United States by supporting efforts that center care around the needs and preferences of patients and their families. No deadline is listed.
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Program-Areas/Delivery-System-Innovation-and-Improvement/Patient-Centered-Coordinated-Care.aspx

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